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A local hero

Lance Corporal Jason Redifer was just 19 when he and two other US Marines were killed in Iraq by a bomb that destroyed their vehicle.

His death in January brought the war to the doorstep of Stuarts Draft, the farming community where he was a much-loved local hero.


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	A local hero Lance Corporal Jason Redifer was just 19 when he and two other US Marines were killed in Iraq by a bomb that destroyed their vehicle. His death in January brought the war to the doorstep of Stuarts Draft, the farming community where he was a much-loved local hero.